Message from Dr Ala Alwan Regional Director WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day 24 March 2015

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World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. (‎2015)‎. Message from Dr Ala Alwan Regional Director WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day 24 March 2015. World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/196901

The third meeting of the Regional Collaborating Committee on Tuberculosis Care and Control (‎RCC-TB)‎
steering group was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on 24 November 2014, with the participation of
members and observers, including representatives from WHO country offices in the Region. This report
briefly summarizes outputs from the presentations, discussion and working group sessions, and indicates
future action.

The South-East Asia (‎SEA)‎ Region of WHO accounts for 41% of the global burden of tuberculosis in terms of disease incidence. In 2014, there was an estimated TB prevalence of 5.4 million and incidence of 4 million , and about 460 000 people died due to the disease in the Region. India and Indonesia have among the largest numbers of cases - 23% and 10% of the global total respectively. The SEA Region has a total of 99 000 estimated MDR-TB cases among notified pulmonary TB cases, accounting for approximately 30% of the world's MDR-TB cases among ...